Lamentations 2:13

You people of Jerusalem [MTY, DOU], ◄what can I/there is nothing that I can► say to help you. No people have [RHQ] suffered like you are suffering; I do not know what I can do to comfort you. The disaster [MET] that you have experienced is as great as the ocean is deep; there is no one [RHQ] who can restore your city.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

In Context

12They cry out to their mothers, “We need [RHQ] something to eat and drink!” They faint like wounded men in the streets of the city. They slowly die in the arms of their mothers.

14The prophets among you claimed that they had seen visions from Yahweh, but what they said was false and worthless. They did not save you from being ◄exiled/forced to go to other countries►, because they did not proclaim that you had sinned. Instead, the messages that they gave you deceived you because they were not true.

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Cross References

Psalms 60:2When we were defeated, it was as though [MET] there was a big earthquake in our land that caused the ground to split open. So now, just as only you can cause the cracks in the land to disappear, help our army to be strong again, because it is as though our country is ◄falling apart/being destroyed►.

Jeremiah 8:22I ask, “Surely there is [RHQ] medicinal balm in the Gilead region! Surely there are [RHQ] doctors there!” But my people have been badly wounded in their spirits, and nothing can heal them.

Jeremiah 14:17So, Jeremiah, tell this to them about yourself: ‘Day and night my eyes are full of tears. I cannot stop crying. I cry for my people, who are very precious to me, as if they were [MET] my daughters. I cry for them because they have been severely wounded; they have been severely crushed [DOU].

Jeremiah 30:12Yahweh also says this: “ You have ◄suffered very much/endured many disasters►; it is as though you have a terrible wound that cannot be cured.

Jeremiah 30:15Because that is true, why do you protest about my punishing you, as though I had caused a wound that could not be cured [RHQ]? It was necessary for me to punish you, because you had committed many sins and you were very guilty.

Lamentations 1:12You people who pass by, you do not [RHQ] seem to care at all about what has happened to us. Look around and see that there are no other [RHQ] people who are suffering like we are. Yahweh has caused us to suffer because he was extremely angry with us.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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